Northwestern philippines where thousands of people have lost their homes because of typhoon. Trying to make it to Northern Europe have been stranded in countries in poor conditions. Croatia has now ordered on its border with serbia be reopened. And we understand that it has been reopened. 2500 people were stuck there. 5,000 people so far have reached slovenia. The u. N. Refugee agency has s warning more than 10,000, many are syrian are currently stranded in serbia. And despite the weather having changed there has not been a dent in the number of people arriving, hoping to make their way to germany. Against the driving rain and the cold, they waited and waited with little or no protection against the elements. Some had been here all night hoping to cross the border between serbia and croatia. They just come and come. We dont have a chance to street. We dont have the actual mid to be given out. Children ten days hold suffer from hyperthermia. The images speak for themselves. The balkan c
Machine. Well tell you how some gadgets designed to help us could be doing the opposite instead. Polls have closed in turkey in the second general election in five months. The election is a challenge for the ak party for president erdogan. In june, it couldnt form a majority government, so the election comes amid growing security concerns, a wave of violence since june has left hundreds dead. We spoke to voters at a polling station in ankara. Once again, turks find themselves called upon to vote for their next government on the ballot paper, a plethora of different parties running as parliamentary elections. Now, turkey historically has a high turnout when it comes to elections, usually in the 80 or more. Even though these are the fourth time the turks take to the polls in less than two years to, there is no voter fatigue here. One of the reasons, because of the huge amount of importance placed on elections, also because of the percentage of young people that are eligible to vote. Lets
Im Andrew Thomas at uluru. It was 30 years ago that this australian landmark was handed back to traditional indigenous moments. Ill bringing the celebration, and look at the Practical Impact that hand over has had leaders from across europe have been meeting in brussels for an emergency summit on the growing refugee crisis. A trust summit allows countries not to wave through refugees unless countries they are headed to agrees. David is in brussels and joins us life. They have a plan, how close to agreement are they. Still not hearing from the e. U. Commission behind me when the talks will end. Could be one, two hours yet. There are obviously sticking points in the action plan. They can be boiled down to two areas one, theyll eighten the border controls, increase the speed of applications for the processing of refugees, and this is where the problems arise. Because they have to deal with the other countries outside the e. U. , where therell be a backlog of refugees as a result of border
Be the biggest hurricane in the regions history. And it really is food for thought. We take a look at a new museum in london that is devoted to what we eat. South african president jacob summa, says there will be no fee increase for University Students next year. He made the announcement after a day of volatile protests where thousands of University Students tried to storm government buildings. They were held back by riot police who fired stun grenades and water cannon at the crowd. Government understands the difficult faced by students from poor households and ages are effected to allow the process to unfold, to find longterm solutions to ensure access to education by our students. Our correspondent is there, and joining us now. Last time we spoke you were taking cover from a very tense situation. Have the students now dispersed . Reporter well, we still see chaotic scenes here [ audio lost ] all right. We apologize still having some technical difficulties there. Israeli police say 30
Plot to murder the president u. S. Secretary of state john kerry is in the middle east to try to press on with a new diplomatic push on syria. After meeting the Foreign Ministers of russia, saudi arabia and turkey in vienna, john kerry said they discussed ideas that could change the dynamic of the syrian crisis, he travelled after jordans Prime Minister said he would coordinate air strikes. Kerrry will travel for talks with his counterpart, and is pushing for a round of talks in vienna next week we go to aman with more on the implications of jordans agreement with russia. I wouldnt call it a shift in amans strategy yet. According to a jordanian official, this agreement to coordinate on the ground in syria between russia and jordan is supposed to be in their interest. Focussing on southern syria, where jordan shares a border, and it will maintain the civility and security. Southern syria is where jordan has influence and interest. Since the start of the conflicts in syria, jordan is wor